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Fishing Stories nets an abundant catch of wonderful writing in a wide variety of genres and styles. The moods range from the rollicking humor of Rudyard Kiplings On Dry-Cow Fishing as a Fine Art and the rural gothic of Annie Proulxs The Wer-Trout to the haunting elegy of Norman Macleans A River Runs Through It. Many of these tales celebrate human bonds forged over a rod, including Guy de Maupassants Two Friends, Jimmy Carters Fishing with My Daddy, and an excerpt from Ernest Hemingways The Garden of Eden . Some deal in reverence and romance, as in Roland Pertwees The River God, and some in adventure and the stuff of legend, as in Zane Greys The First Thousand-Pounder and Ron Rashs Their Ancient Glittering Eyes. There are narratives that confront head-on the heartbreaks and frustrations of the sport, from Thomas McGuanes meditation on long spells of inaction as the essence of fishing in The Longest Silence to Raymond Carvers story of a boys deflated triumph in the gut-wrenching masterpiece Nobody Said Anything. And alongside the works of literary giants are the memories of people both great and humble who have found meaning and fulfillment in fishing, from a former American presiden

Author

Hughes, Henry, USA Staff

Publisher

Random House Book Group Ltd.

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781841596136

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities